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Timelines don't seem to appear anywhere in the % for bid points. If they can meet IOC by '35 then they meet the contract requirements. There may be a few points in some other category that includes delivery timelines but I don't see it. You can only judge things on the criteria that exist...

This is from the model that was revealed a month ago. I have no idea. Their placement near the NSM might matter or it might just be a space where they won't get RAM garbage on them. Often those sorts of places are for antennae of various sorts. SATCOM antennae, or perhaps its something for...

OSI and LMC got together like peanut butter and jam. OSI are amazing.

They don't have auto industry in their bid. Hanwa does with their maint and build factory for army vehicles. If they lose that is likely why.

S2170 is a Towed torpedo countermeasure (SSTD is its other name). It just also detects and classifies the torp. It's basically a Nixie with a sensor. Only change I could find on that factsheet besides the picture was LEED. Seems like they pretty much know where they are going now. If only...

It's coming. Those are likely for Latvia and an immediate need. RCN has a few projects on the go with Canadian manufacturers and one with Austria (using Canadian optics).

I took a look at it up close. If you swapped out the 127mm for a 57mm it would be a good fit. Unlike SK we don't need shore bombardment capability on our light frigates. The flight deck was tiny in comparison to our own. It had a single fire control radar and looked like a SMART-S...

Spoke to someone in submarine community yesterday. Some interesting perspectives. They we speaking about challenges and likes of each program, but not necessarily considerations for the competition. Both subs they would be super happy with. The KSS is something we have no experience with...

Photo editing AI to the rescue. Thanks @Stoker

All part of the cultural exchange.

Well I almost boomer thumb photo's these but fortunately I'm a Gen Xer so only partially obscured! Saved some sailors from the Korean Frigate from being eaten by a Canada Goose. They got a little too close to take a photo... lmao

Lol I was thinking the exact same thing. It's needed though.

Nice, they get the fancy new jetty. Good hosting call for whomever made that decision. Give the guest the best. Also "I'll take 11 more of these please!"

There is a school of though that points to combat aerospace as being the "most expensive" of defence investments. It takes an enormous amount of resources to design and build fighter aircraft of quality. The reasoning is similar to the boom bust cycle of warship building in Canada. To keep...

Cheap, fast, good. You can have two of the above. Liberty ships were the first two. They were disposable. Many barely survived their first voyages due to shoddy workmanship. They took a ton of risks in building them. Their life cycle was expected to be 5 years max before the breakers yard...

Wow, so what have you done for me lately is really a thing. This radar stuff and it's monitoring is foundational Coast guard spending. It will be the start of proper SAR coverage in the Arctic and a traffic management scheme with traffic check in points for the Arctic. Which means civilian...

We've grabbed the low hanging fruit. Standing offers (tools, stationary, etc...), pay increases, quick infrastructure wins (like buying a condo near a base for troops to live in), TD money, improved benefits (IR as an example). The next part takes some time and is much harder. Longer term...

I mean that is your job! I'm just a customer right now.

Matches my own arrival date to Victoria this week. Might just take a stroll down to see this submarine on the weekend if I have the time. Be kinda cool to look at it with my own eyes.

Sure but why? Because the NIBMY's made such a stink? Environmental reasons? Duty to consult? The territory asked them to intervene? So many possibilities. The story is super vague as to the reasoning for the decision. That's all that I'm saying.